In a small room at the headquarters of the nonprofit decARcerate on Sunday, a group of almost 20 people, led by Kaleem Nazeem, began planning for a fight to win hearts and minds.

It's unclear whether other Bay Area cities will still see surges of federal agents.

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Across the nation, and especially in Philadelphia, homeowners are struggling to maintain aging homes that are crumbling and increasingly expensive to fix.

The same operators that closed facilities plan to reopen them to hold immigrants. Advocates say that puts detainees at risk of violence and mistreatment.

Just days after the U.S. military struck an alleged Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean, some of the highest-ranking officials in the American government have signaled they believe they are above the law, so long as whatever they are doing is in service of the wishes of Donald Trump. Former Deputy National Security Advisor to Pres. Obama and Co-Host of ‘Pod Save The World,’ Ben Rhodes, says “We are seeing the language of the war on terror and the multi-decade failed war on drugs merged together with Trump’s authoritarian militaristic impulses, and it’s scary, and it should scare people.”

Proponents began a petition drive to expand voting rights behind bars and to ensure ballot access for those who are still entitled.

We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza. Her YouTube channel for young children became...

These three laws are detrimental to public safety and to my ability to fight crime.

In 1983, to help fight the wrongful charge, Calvin Duncan began to teach himself the law, while being held within the Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans. In his new book The Jailhouse Lawyer, co-wri...

Black women are too often criminalized for surviving abuse, miscast as aggressors when we defend ourselves and held to a higher burden of proof

Texas is one of a dozen states that doesn't participate in the Summer EBT program that gives low-income children meals when school is out.

South Dakota is on a path to invest $2 billion into its corrections facilities in the next decade as a result of its stringent crime laws